Mimi Cave was only in post-production on her debut feature — the 2022 horror film “Fresh,” with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones — when she was approached about directing Nicole Kidman in “Holland,” a screenplay by Andrew Sodorski that had been bouncing around the industry since it first appeared on the Black List in 2013. Having grown up in a suburb of Chicago, she was familiar with the film’s setting of Holland, Michigan, and she felt like she knew the film’s characters from her time there.

“The town I grew up in was not too dissimilar from Holland, so I just felt a real kinship with them,” she says.

Kidman, who also produced the film through her company Blossom Films, plays Nancy Vandergroot, a high school home economics teacher in Holland who suspects her optometrist husband, Fred (Matthew Macfadyen) is having an affair. So she conscripts the school’s shop teacher, Dave Delgado...